When there was flooding in Cumbria that destroyed a road bridge, they quickly built a temporary train station on each side and ran a shuttle train over the surviving rail bridge. This was a few years ago and lasted a few months.
And free of charge to ride, too ... though it was only really for bus passengers, and pedestrians or cyclists would would normally have walked/ridden over the road bridge (which formed a fairly vital link between the parts of Workington, the largest town in the area, that were either side of the river, particularly for anyone from the satellite villages who usually went to school, visited doctors or the hospital, shopped, or worked, in the town centre), as there wasn't even an alternative footway until the local army reserves chucked together a narrow pontoon structure a couple days later. Everyone else had to take the 20-ish mile diversion to the next nearest road bridge that hadn't been washed away by the storm surge... that or try and find somewhere to park alongside the bank, take the shuttle, and then walk the rest of the way or try to cram onto the suddenly oversubscribed buses. Or wade across the estuary.
Richard That showed just how quickly in an emergency "Things Get Done" Sadly PC Bill Barker lost his life when the bridge collapsed. I knew him through motorcycling A great loss.
Tom, if you're ever going to find amazing places a bit farther away: in southern Japan there's a railway line that has a steam train running on it, but in this case it's a "normal" scheduled train, so everything around it is totally normal (such as buying tickets, pass coverage, stations, etc). It travels between Kumamoto and Hitoyoshi and makes 1 round trip per day. It doesn't go every day though, strangely it skips all but one wednesday this year... The one-way 84km trip takes about 2.5 hours, and with its snacks car and two wide-view observation cars, it's a fairly comfortable ride.
This service is called Hitoyoshi and is ran by an 8620 Class engine. It's very rare to have daily steam in operation (Ōigawa Railway also operates all year long with only a few days off), though there are a few companies in Japan that do regular weekend steam all year long (e.g. Mooka Railway, Chichibu Railway, JR East, JR West). Those aren't too different from other companies in the world with an operable heritage fleet though.
In the UK we actually have quite a few steam trains that run normally but not for long distances, most of them are short distance 30min-1hour. They don't run everyday but they are scheduled. Now that I look at it we have tons of active steam trains run by volunteers but I haven't seen a long distance steam train yet, most journeys are for leisure though.
Here in Melbourne, Australia "train replacements busses" are pretty much the standard way of travelling. If only we had bus replacement trains. I'd be much happier, but I'm sure shopping centers would be less than enthused.
Only if the train line doesn't go past / through the complex. There are plenty of examples of shopping centres that have rail stations either close by, right next to, or indeed right inside them.
I don't exactly know why this "bus replacement rail service" reminded me of the following, but anyway: Normally when a river intersects with a road, you either have a road bridge over the river, or sometimes a road tunnel going under the river. But I remember once when hiking in either the Peak District or Yorkshire Dales, I once saw a bridge which had been built to carry a river over a road. Not a particularly big river - more of a stream, really - only about 2 or 3 metres wide and at the time, about 30 cm deep, though the depth probably varies with season. It was a stone-built bridge which somehow had been made watertight, and didn't look like a recent construction, though this was more than 20 years ago.
What a timing. I had to take a rail replacement bus two yesterday. It was as great an experience as can be when you crowd a whole train into two buses in the peak of summer.
Fantastic video, and a fantastic service. I love Leadhills and Wanlockhead, some of the most beautiful places you'll find and it's fantastic to see the railway volunteers, who I know work really hard, getting the recognition they deserve.
Nice to see my neck of the woods on the channel - I grew up just south of there! Never knew about this train, though; must get my dad to go up there and have a go on my behalf.
I grew up in wanlockhead, my grandparents and parents are still there to this day, in fact my mother used this service just last week during the road construction between both villages...
(At the end of the video) **Goes into description** **Sees date** Today’s date: Sunday 6th October 2019 Video’s upload date: Thursday 7th July *2016* Me: _oh_
I know right! Gah, wish I'd known about Tom four years ago; I'd have loved to take this train. I'm probably about twenty minutes from Leadhill, if my "everything in South Lanarkshire is twenty minutes apart" rule holds.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 they stepped up for that one occasion but normally as I understand it runs on a museum railway schedule (i.e. it being the attraction and not the means to an end). So it will operates. Checked the homepage and currently they haven't opened for the season due to COVID-19.
The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway was for years the highest standard gauge railway line in Britain, even higher than Druimachdar/Drumochter summit on the Highland main line. It closed in 1939, but the rebuilt volunteer-run railway has regained the distinction of being the highest adhesion worked railway. The Snowdon Mountain Railway goes much higher but is worked by rack-and-pinion.
Tom, the LRT (light rail transit) service I use on weekends is [again] on bus replacement for maintenance work this weekend. Thanks for posting this clip--it made my day a bit brighter. :-)
Wow... 6 years later, and Germany is doing it too... On the heritage Brohltalbahn between Weiler and Niederzissen (in the area between Bonn and Cologne) there is a bus replacement rail service in effect until 20.05.22 - if someone is interested...
A few years ago, in Switzerland in the Gotthard-Region, a landslide had interrupted the highway, so everyone had to use the train, because the local street was closed due to road work. In consequence three closed railway stations were temporarly opened.
This year (2019), there is bus replacement rail service between Slovakia and Czech Republic because of reconstruction a road bridge across the border river Morava. The rail line has not been previously used for some years, so this year the traffic there will come alive for a few months.
Actually, the replacement bus used to go right past where I wanted to go, so we just asked the driver to stop there rather than continue to the station which required a 1/2 mile walk backwards to the destination. Also no fee was charged due to the "inconvenience".
In Austria they had the same thing on the Donauuferbahn in the Wachau region. Because they had a flood and the road was closer to the Danube than the rail. The railway had been abolished a few months before but was set on service again.
Nice video, Tom. By the way, the line was opened on the trackbed of the former standard gauge Caledonian Railway Wanlockhead branch. It closed in 1938 but when open, Wanlockhead station at 1498 feet above sea level was the highest standard gauge station in the whole of the British Isles.
The road from Wanlockhead up to the NATS radar station on top of Lowther Hill is the highest paved road in the UK, I believe. Closed to cars, but you can walk or cycle up it.
There's right now a bus-replacement-train in Rakovnik, Czechia. The regional transport authority has contracted an operator to run for 2 months on an old unused line.
I saw this video years ago. Not going to guess how UA-cam's algorithms work. Something similar (if not exactly the same thing) was happening a couple of days ago though. See Tim Dunn's tweets. Maybe UA-cam foretold this would happen two months ago? Tinfoil hats 'n' stuff?
I can confirm it's well worth going if you're nearby. as the video said, it's on weekends through the most of the year (the bits you'd want) so drop by if you're nearby.
They should try running it a couple of times times a week or month just for fun. I bet it would continue bringing in more tourists. I'd certainly go out of my way to ride it. Looks like more fun than my local bus system. Probably a smoother ride too & I literally mean that. I went on Tulsa's 201 yesterday & the road was so bouncy & loud we couldn't talk even if we yelled.
There are a few instances of such services using mainline railroad trains in the US, and at least one, Shore Line East in Connecticut, bypassing a massive rebuild of Interstate 95, being made permanent when the construction ended.
A similar thing happened in Australia on the Walhalla Goldfields Railway in Victoria which operates a tourist rail service from Thomson to Walhalla on the former Victorian Railway Moe to Walhalla narrow gauge railway. Approximately 15/20 years ago a landslide blocked the road from Moe to Walhalla, as there is only one road in and out Walhalla from the south VicRoads contracted the Walhalla Goldfields Railway to operate a limited passenger and light freight service from Thomson to Walhalla until the road was repaired. I believe the repairs to the road took several months to complete as the cliff face had to be stabilized.
Being from Northern Ireland, we tend to have bus-replacement rail services more often than rail-replacement bus services. Our rail network unfortunately isn't as good as that in GB, so most commuters get the bus (especially between the two largest cities, Belfast and Derry, where the bus (1hr40min) is much quicker than the train (2hr20min)). I once had to get a bus-replacement train from Belfast to Derry as the motorway was closed due to an accident
I thought the cards were the little circle in the top-right that can be references to throughout the video. Much like the sources section on Wikipedia.
Sadly not in Glasgow this week as I'm on holidays - if I'd known you were up here I'd have been glad to buy you a pint / coffee / other beverage (IRN BRU?) ... lol ... fascinating story I didn't know was even happening just a few miles away from me.
Fun Fact: When the MIssissippi River flooded in 1993, a train service was established over a DAM so people could still get across the river, even thought the road was out.
It breaks my heart to think of all the lines, stations, bridges, fantastic viaducts, which ran to every little village in the land discarded. The enormous effort to dig flat the ground to lay the rails -with hardly a gradient; creating all those massive bankings in the process shows how deep down they had to dig...all wasted, was the crime of the century. If they cost too much to run, then the rails could've been replaced by roads and passing places for express buses.
Those railways closed for a reason; the area already had roads and there was not enough freight and passengers to cover the expense of running them and maintaining the track. A few closed railways have reopened when more business became available, but you can't have trains if no one wants to use them.
Only a few country conserved most of their railway capital. Switzerland for example, which makes it the country with the densest railways network in the world at the scale of a whole small country. It's very expensive to maintain tho.
Last night, in Stockholm, due to Heavy snowfalls, all bus services were fell apart and shut down. that included the night buses that usually runs when the metro was not in service. But due to the bus network not working, they decided to run the metro all night long as a "Bus replacement metro services", going once an hour, just for that night! If i was able to, I could report that in "Tom Scott"-style or something, but i couln't go anywere as my local bus service - was shut down! (I would be stuck anyways as my local bus services doesn't run on the nights.)
There's currently a bus replacement rail service on Wachauerbahn (Lower Austria) replacing Bus 715 which cannot run due to flooding. The timetable says "until further notice."
It sounds like a bunch of old guys who have a passion for railways. It's not a business, it's a hobby group. It is like a commune in the sense that nobody gets paid, but that's how most volunteering works.
To be honest, In the Netherlands, when we have to get into a rail replacement bus, we get to ride those luxurious touring buses (most of the time) I quite like it.
Not sure if this is related but in Australia when there's trackwork for trains and they can't be run due to the trackwork, buses replace trains. They stop close to or at a bus stop each train station on the line and travel as a normal bus on normal roads. You have to put up with traffic conditions and the fact that buses heave and move a lot more than trains but I guess it has some similarity to what was mentioned in the video.
There are train-replacement buses here in Perth, but they're not uncomfortable, they're the same buses that are part of the public transport system in general
I love that they all take turns being the driver.
We did that as kids, but we took turns being the doctor.
@@grancito2
Sounds like an excuse to see girls' parts.
🔫 Mum said it's my turn to drive the train
It's probably the least comfortable job, it can't be nice sitting at 90° to the window all day 😅
@@Camberwell86 nah even if it is warm or cold its still fun to drive a locomotive around
When there was flooding in Cumbria that destroyed a road bridge, they quickly built a temporary train station on each side and ran a shuttle train over the surviving rail bridge. This was a few years ago and lasted a few months.
And free of charge to ride, too ... though it was only really for bus passengers, and pedestrians or cyclists would would normally have walked/ridden over the road bridge (which formed a fairly vital link between the parts of Workington, the largest town in the area, that were either side of the river, particularly for anyone from the satellite villages who usually went to school, visited doctors or the hospital, shopped, or worked, in the town centre), as there wasn't even an alternative footway until the local army reserves chucked together a narrow pontoon structure a couple days later.
Everyone else had to take the 20-ish mile diversion to the next nearest road bridge that hadn't been washed away by the storm surge... that or try and find somewhere to park alongside the bank, take the shuttle, and then walk the rest of the way or try to cram onto the suddenly oversubscribed buses. Or wade across the estuary.
Richard That showed just how quickly in an emergency "Things Get Done" Sadly PC Bill Barker lost his life when the bridge collapsed.
I knew him through motorcycling A great loss.
"if you watch it a day or two after it comes out.."
Me : looks at date
*4 years ago*
Me: well nevermind then
I feel your pain
It still runs though. Just not as a bus replacement service.
I was half hoping that they decided to just make it a year round service. I get why they wouldn't, but still, it's quite a story.
@@bow-tiedengineer4453 It's a volunteers run track. They can't maintain the track when it snows and the open cabins must be cold af
@@Rig0r_M0rtis I know. as I said, I get why they wouldn't, but it would be theoretically possible, and super cool, even if it is unreasonable.
The bus replacement train's name is Clyde.
I normally don't swing that way, but Clyde is clearly the cutest train in the all of the land.
I thought it was Trainy McTrainface.
+Pretermit I swear I see you everywhere.
+grande1899 Creative.
I hate to say this but I don't get it. Can someone explain?
This train is going so fast that it could count at express train in Serbia.
Are railways that bad in Serbia?
@@erkinalp krajina express as example
Ćao Srbine, nikad nisam bio u vozu ali lepo je videti tvoj komentar, pa i 3 godine kasnije.
same as new zealand 80kph is the max speed
@@apache1234657 30 kmph in Serbia.
Are there Plane replacement Boats?
okay dad see you in 6 months
Is there taxi replacement walks?
@@djsolstice8964 That's a boat replacement plane.
Numerous ships cross the Atlantic. Passenger as well as freight.
Yes rafts
"The museum of lead mining." How very Scottish.
There isone in joplin missouri
I've been there it's very nice actually
@@joewipat5452 I wonder if it is as exciting as the Welsh Slate Museum at Llanberis?
@@portcullis5622 Ah mate, that museum is where it’s at!
one of the coolest museums i've ever seen is the salt mine museum in salzburg, austria
The locomotive's name is Clyde. For some reason I find that quite charming.
Spudeaux Did you know that almost every locomotive has a name?
@@vik8218 Locomotive
Reminds me of Thomas the Tank Engine
So that is the name of the nearby river, even the electoral zone is called Clyde.
@@snowstrobe Because half the male population there is called Clyde. And 20% of women as well.
We had a rail replacement boat for some days here in Western Norway. Way better than the bus (which is never to prefer).
I love Britain for things just like this.
We're such a bizarre people haha. I love it.
Scotland out of Britain, Britain out of Ireland.
@@anonb4632 hey there getting a bit political in a light hearted conversation dont we think here.
@@Fm_1055 The colonial occupation of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is something to be resisted at all times.
@@anonb4632 not really
Tom, if you're ever going to find amazing places a bit farther away: in southern Japan there's a railway line that has a steam train running on it, but in this case it's a "normal" scheduled train, so everything around it is totally normal (such as buying tickets, pass coverage, stations, etc). It travels between Kumamoto and Hitoyoshi and makes 1 round trip per day. It doesn't go every day though, strangely it skips all but one wednesday this year... The one-way 84km trip takes about 2.5 hours, and with its snacks car and two wide-view observation cars, it's a fairly comfortable ride.
What is it called
This service is called Hitoyoshi and is ran by an 8620 Class engine.
It's very rare to have daily steam in operation (Ōigawa Railway also operates all year long with only a few days off), though there are a few companies in Japan that do regular weekend steam all year long (e.g. Mooka Railway, Chichibu Railway, JR East, JR West). Those aren't too different from other companies in the world with an operable heritage fleet though.
In the UK we actually have quite a few steam trains that run normally but not for long distances, most of them are short distance 30min-1hour. They don't run everyday but they are scheduled. Now that I look at it we have tons of active steam trains run by volunteers but I haven't seen a long distance steam train yet, most journeys are for leisure though.
+thany3 Seeing that he's about to take a trip to the arctic, I think Japan isn't too far fetched :)
But that definitely sounds interesting!
5hirtandtieler
Japan is farther from the north pole than the UK ;)
It's on the track bed of a railway built to serve some mines that closed in the 1930's. Rebuilt as a narrow gauge tourist line in the 1980's.
UA-cam suggested this to me, even 3 years on, and no common interests.
And I tell you what. WOW. What an awesome 140 seconds this was. Thank you 👍🏼
I would travel to these villages specifically to take this train. They should formalize its service.
Joey Broda Same.
Here in Melbourne, Australia "train replacements busses" are pretty much the standard way of travelling.
If only we had bus replacement trains. I'd be much happier, but I'm sure shopping centers would be less than enthused.
Me too, there's gonna be a lot more now that skyrail is being built
Only if the train line doesn't go past / through the complex. There are plenty of examples of shopping centres that have rail stations either close by, right next to, or indeed right inside them.
I don't exactly know why this "bus replacement rail service" reminded me of the following, but anyway: Normally when a river intersects with a road, you either have a road bridge over the river, or sometimes a road tunnel going under the river. But I remember once when hiking in either the Peak District or Yorkshire Dales, I once saw a bridge which had been built to carry a river over a road. Not a particularly big river - more of a stream, really - only about 2 or 3 metres wide and at the time, about 30 cm deep, though the depth probably varies with season. It was a stone-built bridge which somehow had been made watertight, and didn't look like a recent construction, though this was more than 20 years ago.
seems somehow fitting to watch this on an amtrak train cruising across california.
I hope they don't switch you to a bus at the next stop. 🚅 ~ 🚍
Melissa Kenfield I
@@Nhoj31neirbo47
well, if you go to eg. San Francisco, than they actually do.
[ slightly late response I know :) ]
Has your amtrak train arrived yet?
When I worked in the airline industry we used to say: People with brains take the trains...
What a timing. I had to take a rail replacement bus two yesterday. It was as great an experience as can be when you crowd a whole train into two buses in the peak of summer.
Fantastic video, and a fantastic service. I love Leadhills and Wanlockhead, some of the most beautiful places you'll find and it's fantastic to see the railway volunteers, who I know work really hard, getting the recognition they deserve.
Nice to see my neck of the woods on the channel - I grew up just south of there! Never knew about this train, though; must get my dad to go up there and have a go on my behalf.
I grew up near Moniaive. Never thought i'd see the local area on this channel!
Dumfries here
I live in Glasgow and we want to Wonlockhead for a day trip last month and we saw the railway but we never thought it was in use.
I live in Biggar. This is just a few miles from me
i grew up in Aberdeen
I grew up in wanlockhead, my grandparents and parents are still there to this day, in fact my mother used this service just last week during the road construction between both villages...
What a great video, Tom. I would definitely try this out if I were nearby. Looks so peaceful and relaxing. What a simple solution. Love it!
(At the end of the video)
**Goes into description**
**Sees date**
Today’s date: Sunday 6th October 2019
Video’s upload date: Thursday 7th July *2016*
Me: _oh_
I know right! Gah, wish I'd known about Tom four years ago; I'd have loved to take this train. I'm probably about twenty minutes from Leadhill, if my "everything in South Lanarkshire is twenty minutes apart" rule holds.
@@clockworkkirlia7475 they stepped up for that one occasion but normally as I understand it runs on a museum railway schedule (i.e. it being the attraction and not the means to an end).
So it will operates. Checked the homepage and currently they haven't opened for the season due to COVID-19.
@@subwarpspeed Oh fantastic, thanks for the info! Blast this virus.
The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway was for years the highest standard gauge railway line in Britain, even higher than Druimachdar/Drumochter summit on the Highland main line. It closed in 1939, but the rebuilt volunteer-run railway has regained the distinction of being the highest adhesion worked railway. The Snowdon Mountain Railway goes much higher but is worked by rack-and-pinion.
Tom, the LRT (light rail transit) service I use on weekends is [again] on bus replacement for maintenance work this weekend. Thanks for posting this clip--it made my day a bit brighter. :-)
Love how they don't care how it looks as long as it works.
Wow... 6 years later, and Germany is doing it too...
On the heritage Brohltalbahn between Weiler and Niederzissen (in the area between Bonn and Cologne) there is a bus replacement rail service in effect until 20.05.22 - if someone is interested...
A few years ago, in Switzerland in the Gotthard-Region, a landslide had interrupted the highway, so everyone had to use the train, because the local street was closed due to road work. In consequence three closed railway stations were temporarly opened.
This year (2019), there is bus replacement rail service between Slovakia and Czech Republic because of reconstruction a road bridge across the border river Morava. The rail line has not been previously used for some years, so this year the traffic there will come alive for a few months.
Actually, the replacement bus used to go right past where I wanted to go, so we just asked the driver to stop there rather than continue to the station which required a 1/2 mile walk backwards to the destination. Also no fee was charged due to the "inconvenience".
In Austria they had the same thing on the Donauuferbahn in the Wachau region. Because they had a flood and the road was closer to the Danube than the rail. The railway had been abolished a few months before but was set on service again.
These are the videos you make that I love the most. Thank you for your diligent journalism service in the weird and wacky world of man made oddities.
That train and the people who keep it going deserve an impromptu party. Donations can go to it's upkeep. Just saying over the pond people.
That train is oddly adorable.
Thanks for this video!
It does look like it belongs in an amusement park....
There was a bus replacement train in Hungary a few years ago.
But even better we had a Metro replacement boat service.
Nice video, Tom. By the way, the line was opened on the trackbed of the former standard gauge Caledonian Railway Wanlockhead branch. It closed in 1938 but when open, Wanlockhead station at 1498 feet above sea level was the highest standard gauge station in the whole of the British Isles.
The road from Wanlockhead up to the NATS radar station on top of Lowther Hill is the highest paved road in the UK, I believe. Closed to cars, but you can walk or cycle up it.
There's right now a bus-replacement-train in Rakovnik, Czechia. The regional transport authority has contracted an operator to run for 2 months on an old unused line.
Rewatching this after watching Tim Traveller's "Rail Replacement Helicopter". Nice gesture, Tom.
I love these videos. I'm also glad to see more citation needed. Keep it up!
2016: Nope
2017: Nope
2018: Nope
2019: UA-cam” Let’s put this on everyone’s recommendations!”
This was recommended to me a few years ago. It was recommended again today.
You wouldn't also happen to play games like CitySkylines like me, would you?
@@Ensivion Are you replying to me or Eddie's Adventures?
I saw this video years ago. Not going to guess how UA-cam's algorithms work.
Something similar (if not exactly the same thing) was happening a couple of days ago though. See Tim Dunn's tweets.
Maybe UA-cam foretold this would happen two months ago? Tinfoil hats 'n' stuff?
Wow how funny dipshit.
We've actually had underground/light rail replacement trams once. Seeing the "replacement service" sign on a tram was quite confusing...
i find myself coming back to rewatch this video at least once a month
I'm no rail fan (I don't dislike trains, I just know nothing about them) but this is extremely cool. Like a blast from the past.
Fascinating! If I had still been living in Cummertrees, I would have made a point of visiting the railway!
That is brilliant! I now have some other places to visit, just for the beauty of it. Thanks for this.
I love your videos! You always find the most interesting topics to cover.
I can confirm it's well worth going if you're nearby. as the video said, it's on weekends through the most of the year (the bits you'd want) so drop by if you're nearby.
Just found this amongst the clips recommended for me by YT I think the other comment s say it all so I'll just say a big Thank You!
This was really cool :) I wish more places did it. I want rail travel in the States really badly.
I've been there, it's a fabulously british attraction.
Scotland out of Britain, Britain out of Ireland.
Considering how much time Amtrak spends sitting still, that speed looks great
Looks cozy and looking at nature, or just grass.
This truly is, an amazing... place.
The scenery looks lovely!
Passengers are receiving excellent training. Cheers!
They should try running it a couple of times times a week or month just for fun. I bet it would continue bringing in more tourists. I'd certainly go out of my way to ride it. Looks like more fun than my local bus system. Probably a smoother ride too & I literally mean that. I went on Tulsa's 201 yesterday & the road was so bouncy & loud we couldn't talk even if we yelled.
Mr. Tom Scott, bringing videos of stuff i dont know since many years ago.
Hey I’m from Dumfries and Galloway! It’s awesome to hear it mentioned in a UA-cam video for once 😂
I absolutely love this train!
There are a few instances of such services using mainline railroad trains in the US, and at least one, Shore Line East in Connecticut, bypassing a massive rebuild of Interstate 95, being made permanent when the construction ended.
A similar thing happened in Australia on the Walhalla Goldfields Railway in Victoria which operates a tourist rail service from Thomson to Walhalla on the former Victorian Railway Moe to Walhalla narrow gauge railway. Approximately 15/20 years ago a landslide blocked the road from Moe to Walhalla, as there is only one road in and out Walhalla from the south VicRoads contracted the Walhalla Goldfields Railway to operate a limited passenger and light freight service from Thomson to Walhalla until the road was repaired. I believe the repairs to the road took several months to complete as the cliff face had to be stabilized.
Congratulations on half a million!
Yay! This would be great between Castle Douglas and Dumfries
Very close to where I was about 2 days ago near Thornhill. Nice place to visit! Impressive hills.
Just three words: this is *AWESOME*!!!! ^_^
Being from Northern Ireland, we tend to have bus-replacement rail services more often than rail-replacement bus services. Our rail network unfortunately isn't as good as that in GB, so most commuters get the bus (especially between the two largest cities, Belfast and Derry, where the bus (1hr40min) is much quicker than the train (2hr20min)). I once had to get a bus-replacement train from Belfast to Derry as the motorway was closed due to an accident
If I was living near there I'd love to volunteer
This has to be a dream come true for Geoff Marshall
Woah, what's with that fancy subscribe button annotation thing at the end? :O
ikr
He's been doing that for some time now. I guess it's a special type of annotation
They seem to be the new annotations that also work on mobile.
It's called google cards or something like that.
I thought the cards were the little circle in the top-right that can be references to throughout the video. Much like the sources section on Wikipedia.
Talyllyn is currently doing this to replace buses reduced in number by construction on the B4405! (June 2019)
Sadly not in Glasgow this week as I'm on holidays - if I'd known you were up here I'd have been glad to buy you a pint / coffee / other beverage (IRN BRU?) ... lol ... fascinating story I didn't know was even happening just a few miles away from me.
Fun Fact: When the MIssissippi River flooded in 1993, a train service was established over a DAM so people could still get across the river, even thought the road was out.
Where's the big T
Delightful!
Thank you Scottish Volunteers! :-)
We could use more of these for public transportation, slow, but steady always wins!
It breaks my heart to think of all the lines, stations, bridges, fantastic viaducts, which ran to every little village in the land discarded.
The enormous effort to dig flat the ground to lay the rails -with hardly a gradient; creating all those massive bankings in the process shows how deep down they had to dig...all wasted, was the crime of the century.
If they cost too much to run, then the rails could've been replaced by roads and passing places for express buses.
Those railways closed for a reason; the area already had roads and there was not enough freight and passengers to cover the expense of running them and maintaining the track. A few closed railways have reopened when more business became available, but you can't have trains if no one wants to use them.
Only a few country conserved most of their railway capital. Switzerland for example, which makes it the country with the densest railways network in the world at the scale of a whole small country.
It's very expensive to maintain tho.
What fun! How about an entire show about this railroad? 😊
Last night, in Stockholm, due to Heavy snowfalls, all bus services were fell apart and shut down. that included the night buses that usually runs when the metro was not in service. But due to the bus network not working, they decided to run the metro all night long as a "Bus replacement metro services", going once an hour, just for that night! If i was able to, I could report that in "Tom Scott"-style or something, but i couln't go anywere as my local bus service - was shut down! (I would be stuck anyways as my local bus services doesn't run on the nights.)
What a lovely story :)
There's currently a bus replacement rail service on Wachauerbahn (Lower Austria) replacing Bus 715 which cannot run due to flooding. The timetable says "until further notice."
This is the cutest train I have ever seen
Sounds good !! I would love to do that too what a nice people for a better place and better Community
This is awesome, Id love to volunteer for something like this in my area.. Im gonna build my career around the railways if I can manage it.
This sounds like Railway Commune where workers control it
It sounds like a bunch of old guys who have a passion for railways. It's not a business, it's a hobby group.
It is like a commune in the sense that nobody gets paid, but that's how most volunteering works.
It is, but it's volunteer
@@TheOwenMajor The pay is in satisfaction at the end of the day!
To be honest, In the Netherlands, when we have to get into a rail replacement bus, we get to ride those luxurious touring buses (most of the time) I quite like it.
I actually like it!
So what happens when it breaks down? Do you have a to get a bus replacement rail replacement bus?
this deserves more likes
There is an older comment with the same joke with 140 likes. This deserves about at many likes as it has gotten, if that.
You tried to copy the joke, but made a mistake in the second sentence. "Do you have a to get a bus"
Maybe there's a bus replacement rail replacement replacement aeroplane?
In Germany there's a bus as replacement for inter city trains.
Awesome little train
Not sure if this is related but in Australia when there's trackwork for trains and they can't be run due to the trackwork, buses replace trains. They stop close to or at a bus stop each train station on the line and travel as a normal bus on normal roads. You have to put up with traffic conditions and the fact that buses heave and move a lot more than trains but I guess it has some similarity to what was mentioned in the video.
How lovely!
Not all hero's wear capes. These folks wear vis vests ❤️💕
That roll over at the end is clever
There are train-replacement buses here in Perth, but they're not uncomfortable, they're the same buses that are part of the public transport system in general
I think it looks kind of fun. Nothing like that in southwestern Ontario.
tx for this video...never see this before...cool!!!
This is Tom's least viewed public video, I don't know why it's quite good
Oh, that's brilliant! Fantastic! :D
Out of all the people I have subscribed to, I am always interested to see what you put your mind too :)
I was there last month. It is the highest village in Scotland apparently.
This is actually really cool